Woman returning from a hunt carrying a boar in her right hand and a stick on her left shoulder to which a hare and two ducks are tied
Marco Dente
ca. 1515–27
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 6 7/16 × 4 3/4 in. (16.3 × 12 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.97.162
Tags
DucksWomenBoarsRabbits
About the Artist
Marco Dente · 1515–1527
Marco Dente (died 1527), also known as Marco da Ravenna, was among the most accomplished printmakers working in Rome during the High Renaissance, a period that witnessed an extraordinary flowering of engraving as both a reproductive and an independent artistic medium. Little is known of his early training, but by the second decade of the sixteenth century he had established himself in the orbit of...